A68840:1614
Most fruitful [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martyr Vermil Florentine, professor of divinity,…Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine, professor of deuinitie,…
Most fruitful [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martyr Vermil Florentine, professor of divinity, in the University of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places. Herein is also added [and] contained two most ample tables, aswell of the matter, as of the words: with an index of the places in the holy scripture. Set forth & allowed, according to the order appointed in the Queens majesties injunctions.Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine, professor of deuinitie, in the Vniuersitye of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places. Herein is also added [and] contained two most ample tables, aswel of the matter, as of the wordes: wyth an index of the places in the holy scripture. Set forth & allowed, accordyng to thorder appointed in the Quenes maiesties iniunctions.
London: printed by John Day, 1564London: printed by Iohn Day, 1564
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8 So he smote them hip and thigh with a great plague. Then he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etan.
8 So he smote them hyp and thygh wyth a great plague. Then he went downe and dwelt in the top of the rocke Etan.
What hip upon thigh, or hip together with thigh signifieth, it is obscure, & therefore there are sundry interpretations brought. The Chaldee Paraphrast expoundeth it to be horsemen & footmen, so that thigh signifieth horsemen, because they sit on the horse with the thigh bowed, and the hip signifieth footmen. Peradventure at that time it was a kind of proverb well known of those men. David Kimhi bringeth an other reason, namely that Samson, 1both slew the Philistines and also did put them to flight, who also as they fled, did fall: as though by this kind of speech might be described the behaviour of them that fell, whereby the hip is bowed unto the thigh. Farther, this hebrew word Jarach signifieth also a shoulder, and the meaning may be that Samson smote them from the shoulder to the thigh. The rock Etan is the proper name of a place.
What hyp vpon thigh, or hyp together with thigh signifieth, it is obscure, & therfore ther are sundry interpretacions brought. The Chaldey Paraphrast expoūdeth it to be horsmen & footemē, so that thigh signifieth horsmē, bicause they syt on the horse with the thigh bowed, and the hyp signifieth footemen. Peraduenture at that time it was a kinde of prouerb wel knowen of those men. Dauid Kimhi bringeth an other reason, namely that Samson,